Fawcett thanks Mr and Mrs Morris for the kind congratulations [on his engagement]. He gives Miss Davidson's address as 56 Kidbrook Park Road, Blackheath. Fawcett thanks Morris for saying that he will invite his future wife to RBG Kew. Fawcett has decided not to go home after all. The Colonial Secretary has already told him that he might have to have a lodging allowance before any of the buildings [at Hope] are erected and he fears his home may be taken possession of if he went away. He states that he has written more fully to Thiselton-Dyer in answer to his letter. A number of [press] cuttings have gone to Morris on the subject of the proposed Agricultural Department. He believes that if the Governor can, he would be glad to sink Fawcett's Department in another, but Fawcett would not accept any change without reference first to RBG Kew. Fawcett was struck by a remark from Thiselton-Dyer that Cinchona may again become the chief centre of importance in Jamaica. Harrison, the Crown Surveyor, has made a careful calculation for Fawcett, and finds that there is about the same area above the contour of 1,000 feet as below it. It is therefore important to have a centre of operations above that limit. Pages 1 and 4 of 4.

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